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Safety as Performance: Moves, the Borrow Checker, debug_assert!, and Cold-Path Hygiene

Rust's safety machinery is not a tax on performance but a tool for it: move semantics that delete copies, a borrow checker that deletes runtime guards, debug_assert! that vanishes in release, and cold-path hygiene that keeps the instruction cache clean.

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